Arts
VIS149 Fall 2004
Room: VAF 228

Tuesdays 3:30 to 6:20
Professor: Ricardo Dominguez
Email: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu

Social Collaboration  and the Cultural Matrix

The class will explore the histories of cultural collaboration  in art, politics and science during the 20th and early 21st century.  We will be reading artists writings about working with groups, essays on social group dynamics, looking at scientist and collaboration, considering current theories of relational aesthetics and contemporary social networks.  

Grading Policies
Final Grade Evaluation:
25% Assignments – 1 Notebook Diary & One Midterm - 5 page essay.    
50% Attendance and Participation
25% Final Exam - Take home essay - 10 page essay.

Attendance:
You will be expected to attend every class. If you have more than 2 unexcused absences, your final grade will drop 1/2 a letter for every additional unexcused absence.  Two unexcused lateness will be considered an absence.

NEW MATERIALS

Jam Echelon Day
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/jam.html

Oppositions/New Models of Production by MS
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/opposition.pdf

Subject
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/subject.html

Critical Art Ensemble
http://www.critical-art.net/

Global Chaos, Just for Fun
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63872,00.html

Kicked Out For Exploiting a Tragedy
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Sustar0318.htm

9/11 to 3/11
A view from Madrid
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=5573

Canadian Police worry about activist cell phone use
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/873

Nike.Ground
http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/nikeground/index.html

What is (ANT)Actor-Network Theory?
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/ant_dff.html

Hot and Cool Diagram
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/hotcool.html

Reading List

Each student is required to read 4 books plus on-line readings for this class.

Bourriaud, Nicolas "Postproduction" 2002 Lukas and Sternberg, New York

Bourrianud, Nicolas "Relational Aesthetics" 2002 les presses du reel

Burnham, Linda Frye "The Citizen Artist" 1998 Distributed Art Publishers

Galloway, Alexander "Protocol : How Control Exists after Decentralization" 2004 Leonardo Books

Sept 27
- Introduction and overview.

VRtimeline
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/VRtime.html

CyberAtlas
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html

Oct 5 - Collaboration and the Social
            (Read: The Citizen Artist: Introduction  - Page 81).
            
Digital Zapatistas - Dr. Jill Lane - 2000
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/nyu/DigitalZapatistas.doc

Oct 12: - Collaboration and the Social
               (Read: The Citizen Artist: Page 81  - Page 171).
             
 http://www.revbilly.com - 2004

Oct 19th - Collaboration and the Social
               (Read: The Citizen Artist: Page 179  - Page 335).

Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico (Chapter  2) - 1998
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/

Oct 26th -  Collaboration with the Viewer/Participant
               (Read: Relational Aesthetics: Introduction  - Page 79).

Critical Art Ensemble on Collaboration. - 2002
  http://www.thing.net/~rdom/cae.pdf

Nov 2 -  Collaboration with the Viewer/Participant
             (Read: Relational Aesthetics: Page 79 - 114).

Freecooperation - 2004
 http://www.freecooperation.org

Midterm Essay Due - 5 pages.

Nov 9 -  Collaboration with the Viewer/Participant
             (Read: Relational Aesthetics: Page 79 - 114).

Smart Mobs - 2000
http://www.smartmobs.com/book/book_summ.html

Nov 16 - Collaboration with the Viewer/Participant
             (Read: Postproduction: Introduction - Page 88).

FlashMobs - 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59297,00.html

Nov 23 - Collaboration and Networks
             (Read: Protocol: Introduction - Page 117).

Social Software
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/050103/social.html

Nov 30th
- Artist Collaboration and Networks
              (Read: Protocol: Page 117 - Page 145).

Linking Effectively: Learning Lessons from Successful
Collaboration in Science and Technology
http://www.rand.org/publications/DB/DB345/

Dec 6th Artist Collaboration and Networks
             (Read: Protocol: Page 145 to 247).

Global Interdisciplinary Research Network for the
 Study of all Aspects of Collaboration in Science and in
 Technology. (2nd Chapter).

http://www.collnet.de/

Dec 11th
- Final Essay Due

Other Recommended Books.

Guattari, Felix "The Three Ecologies" 2000 Athlone Press

Latour, Bruno "Politics of Nature" 2004 Harvard Univesity Press

Shepard, Benjamim "From ACT UP to the WTO" 2002 Verso

Green, Charles "The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism" 2001 University of Minnesota Press

Fusco, Coco "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas"  

Banes, Sally "Greenwich Village 1963"